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Katharine Hepburn quotes, quotations, sayings

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katherine Hepburn
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My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn
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Without discipline, there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
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It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
Katharn Hepburn
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If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn
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Without discipline, there is no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
 1004    
If you obey all the rules, you'll miss all the fun.
Katherine Hepburn
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If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
Katherine Hepburn
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn
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I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
Katherine Hepburn
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother.
Katharine Hepburn
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Katharine Hepburn
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Roland Barthes
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The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn
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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn
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It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Katharine Hepburn
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
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Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn
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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
Katharine Hepburn
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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret? if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn
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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret...if you have any sense....And if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Katharine Hepburn
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Never complain. Never explain.
Katherine Hepburn
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn
 1004    
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn
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I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....
Ian Shoales
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.
Katherine Hepburn
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. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
Katharine Hepburn
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